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General Knowledge Quiz 1183 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the subject of the book "Black Beauty", published in 1877?
2. All major US TV networks carried live coverage of the flight of which well known personality who was trying to avoid arrest for murder?
3. Which of these comedians was knighted in 2000?
4. In 1950, Nancy Hodges of British Columbia became the first woman in the Commonwealth to be what?
5. In 2006 American Steven Wold became an overnight success in the UK, following more than 40 years in his profession, in what field?
6. Traditionally, what is the topping for a shepherd's pie?
7. In the 1960s, record players were manufactured to revolve at 78, 45 and 33 revolutions per minute, and what other speed?
8. Fingerprint classification was refined sufficiently to be used as evidence to solve a crime in which decade?
9. Along with the gold rushes in North America (1799, the 1820s, 1848-55, 1860s, 1870s, 1890s), there were similar feverish rushes in Australia and which other country in 1851, 1861 and the 1890s?
10. Which of these was designed by Reginald Mitchell?
11. Which of these, now a singer, was a former cavalry officer who guarded the Queen Mother's coffin?
12. What event involving King John of England occurred at Runnymede in 1215?
13. Which of these is the first known in the West to be associated with power of steam?
14. Which of these sports was not part of the Classic pentathlon contested in Olympic Games from 1906 to 1924?
15. What 1918 Act of the US Congress forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the US government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the US government or its institutions with contempt, and allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those criteria?
16. What is the name of the mountain range that runs for 870 miles for the full length of Italy?
17. Tungurahua ("Throat of Fire") is an active stratovolcano in what country?
18. Which of the following words originated from an annual procession of large chariots weighing several tons carrying the statues of Krishna, Subhadra and Baladeva?
19. Who acquired ownership around 563 CE of the island of Iona, in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland?
20. What is used to remove creases from clothing?
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